Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School

Academy converter·Secondary school Upminster, Havering·RM14 2QR
Composite score
77.8
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#206
National rank
#51
In London
#1
In Havering
Top 6%
Nationally

Performance (KS4 GCSE)

Attainment 8 score
62.2
National avg ≈ 46
Progress 8 score
—
% achieving 9–5 in English & Maths
70%
% achieving 9–4 in English & Maths
91%
% EBacc grade 5+
48%
EBacc average points score
5.78

Ofsted judgements

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Quality of education
Outstanding
Behaviour and attitudes
Outstanding
Personal development
Outstanding
Leadership and management
Outstanding
Safeguarding effective?
Yes
Sixth form provision
Outstanding

Getting a place

Offered a place after putting it first
65%
170 first choices, 119 places
First choices per place
1.43
more first choices than places
Applications naming the school
475
any preference, for 119 places
Applications from another council area
24%
First preferences per place, last five years▲ 0.21
00.511.52
1 per place
1.2820221.3320231.4720241.2220251.432026

Red dashed line = one first choice per place. How to read this

We do not have a checked cut-off distance for Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School yet. Havering does publish allocation figures and we are working through them council by council — we only show a distance once we have found it in the council’s own document.

Application figures: DfE, school level applications and offers (2026 intake).

School profile

Age range
11–18
Pupils on roll
829
Gender
Girls
Religious character
Roman Catholic
Admissions
Non-Selective

Pupil background

% FSM ever-6
12.9%
Typical secondary: 27.5%
% EAL
25.6%
Typical secondary: 12.0%

Special educational needs

% SEN support
6.8%
Typical secondary: 13.7%
% with an EHC plan
1.6%
Typical secondary: 2.9%

Attendance

Overall absence
5.2%
Typical secondary: 8.9%
Persistently absent
12.0%
Typical secondary: 25.7%

Staffing & funding

Pupils per teacher
17.0
Typical secondary: 16.7
Spend per pupil
£8,264
Typical secondary: £7,815

“Typical” = the median secondary school in England. What this means

What pupils do next

The share of this school's Year 11 leavers in education, training or employment for at least two terms afterwards.

In education, training or work
98%
120 pupils tracked
Stayed in education
94%
Apprenticeship
1%
Employment
3%

DfE, KS4 destination measures.

Nearby secondary schools

Location

School overview

Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School is a girls' secondary school serving Upminster, Havering, classified by the DfE as a converter academy with a Roman Catholic religious character. It has 829 pupils aged 11 to 18 on roll. The school's average Attainment 8 score in the latest GCSE results was 62.2 — well above the national average (national average: 46). Performance is little changed year on year. On our composite score, which combines the DfE attainment measures above, this places it among the top 6% of secondary schools in England.

70% of pupils achieved a grade 5 or above in both English and maths, well above the national average of about 45%. 91% achieved a standard pass (grade 4+) in English and maths. Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School is oversubscribed: about 7 in 10 of the families who made it their first choice were offered a Year 7 place for September 2026, with 170 first choices for 119 places. After Year 11, 98% of its leavers went on to education, an apprenticeship or work that they stayed in for at least two terms. Overall pupil absence was 5.2%. There are about 17.0 pupils per teacher. Sacred Heart of Mary Girls' School does not currently have a recent graded Ofsted judgement on record (often the case for newer or recently converted schools), so it is worth asking when its next inspection is expected. This overview is generated automatically from the latest published DfE performance tables and Ofsted data; figures are rounded, and you can check the originals via the official links above.

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